1712 in France

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Events from the year 1712 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

24 July – Battle of Denain

The Cassard expedition

15 August – César Gabriel de Choiseul, statesman (died 1785)

12 January – Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Coriolis de Villeneuve d'Espinouse, aristocrat (born 1655)

12 February – Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Dauphine of France (born 1685)

18 February – Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of France (born 1682)

22 February – Nicolas Catinat, military officer (born 1637)

8 March – Louis, Duke of Brittany (born 1707)

9 September – Jean Mauger, medallist (born 1648)

Jean-Baptiste Forest, landscape painter (born 1636)

Richard Simon, priest, Oratorian, biblical critic orientalist and controversialist (born 1638).

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